Fedora/RPM packaging and patches

Hi,

I just wanted to announce my RPM packaging for linux-gpib.

The RPM specs and patches for the main package is at
<https://github.com/vddvss/linux-gpib-packaging>, and the RPM specs and
downloads for the firmware package are at:
<https://github.com/vddvss/linux-gpib-firmware-packaging>.

Fedora and RHEL copr builds are at:
<https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/vddvss/linux-gpib/package/linux-gpib>.

This repo includes a number of patches that may be of interest to the
community:

 * In the documentation, I've converted it to DocBook 5 and added a
   manpage for the `ibterm` program. The conversion fixes a number of
   issues with with tables in the documentation, in particular `jw`
   messes them up in manpages, but using the DocBook 5 xslt stylesheet
   fixes them. I've also generated the PDF using `dblatex` instead of
   `jw`, which again fixes the tables in the generated PDF--and gives a
   nicer looking PDF.  There were also a few typos I fixed, and a couple
   of tags that weren't closed.

   If you are interested in upstreaming this, let me know, and I can
   clean it up a bit more.

 * I've added a patch to fix the tcl manpage, which is broken. `rpmlint`
   caught this one. The page dates from 2001, so I'm unsure how long
   it's been that way--or how many people have actually tried to use the
   manpage.

 * For some reason, the build of the kernel module on RHEL/CentOS 7 is
   broken. In the fmh_gpib module, it was not able to find the
   declaration of the of_find_node_by_path function. Not sure what's
   going on with that, since it is in the linux/of.h header. But I'm not
   sure how many people will actually use the driver with that OS, so I
   just did a hack and patched an extern declaration in the fmh_gpib.c
   file for EL7 builds.

 * Another issue is `rpmlint` complains that the FSF address is
   incorrect in the COPYING file. Didn't bother to patch this, since I'm
   not sure how much it really matters.

 * The package includes new udev rules for better out-of-box user
   experience and to allow easier user customization of minor device
   numbers. More details about this are in the README file of the main
   repo.

 * The package also replaces the configuration/firmware loading scripts
   with systemd unit files. These will make sure the kernel modules are
   loaded before running `gpib_config` and loading firmware, and they
   will allow greater user customization.

Thanks for all of your work on this project, and any feedback you have
is much appreciated.

--
Colin

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